Bleach Blanket Blingo?

Post date: 2023-03-14 01:55:13

How do the Bleach Gods know to single out ONLY the new, trendy, spendy clothing items for their Evil Marking? How can they be appeased???

ONE member of our household has clothes - especially colored t-shirts - constantly ruined by pink spots and stains that appear (to me) bleach-related. This has been happening for about a year. The latest victim is was purchased from a trendy brick-and-mortar shop - and is less than 2 weeks old.

Wit's end, I'm at you.

The facts:
- Bleaching presents primarily as a pink 'haze' but there are also occasionally tiny bright spots on the same garment as the haze. example from one side of one shirt
- Bleaching occurs randomly across each garment (aka not where the person might have rubbed up against something).
- All laundry goes through a new-ish but non-fancy top-loading washer and front-loading dryer.
- No laundry products contain bleach.
- Some cleaning products may contain bleach-like products but are only used in very localized areas where clothing does not go (like the shower grout or kitchen sink).
- We all wear colored t-shirts but this person's colored t-shirts are the only victim.
- No pants, from any person, have ever shown signs of bleach.
- Shirts and pants are washed together.
- Bright bleach spots very occasionally appear on this person's specific towels, which are a different 'model' than the towels of the rest of the household.
- Very very few cosmetics (and absolutely 0 skin-lightening products or nail polish remover) are in use in the household.
- This person uses a prescription face cream but does not wear these t-shirts while using. Colored pillowcases do not show bleach.
- All people reliably use plastic hampers in bathrooms, put there to ensure that discarded clothes don't accidentally touch any floor where any cleaning products are used.
- Various laundry tests indicate it is unlikely to be bleach residue in the washing machine or dryer.
- No one is involved in any solvent-related activities outside the household.
- The bleach victim does (sadly) 0 cleaning in the household.

Thoughts:
- The clothes in question are ironed frequently. Could it be the... ironing board? the iron?... but we don't iron the towels and we DO iron the pants...
- Could this be a dye issue in the manufacturing process?
- Should we swap out every cleaning product in the household, just to eliminate that variable altogether?

Would love to hear your ideas.

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